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Final countdown at the carnival in Vienna. A beautiful woman is found in the Old Danube, dressed in a Playboy-Bunny costume and an expensive red coat. Obviously, she was tortured to death with cuts into which pepper was strewn. But the dead woman is no nightclub girl that got between the lines in gangland. She is undercover journalist Rita Bäumler. Whose toes did she step on? The right-wing extremist novelist Friedrich Berg's? Theodor Bitterlich's, the fanatic fighter against fascism? Is the burglary into the apartment of detective Maria Kouba indeed the criminal act of an Eastern European crime-ring? Have the slashed tires got something to do with Kouba's black lover? And who is the mysterious new girl-friend of her partner Phillip Roth? Out of breath, Maria Kouba follows the confusing tracks - towards the great final countdown at the Viennese Opernball ... |
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